Is there a word for the following? When folk share inspirational posts about how to do product / design / dev well. But completely miss that they're doing the very thing the article says not to do.

A Service Designer showed me how he very quickly got Co-pilot to create a product overview video based on a word doc he put together. It wasn't perfect, but it did the job.

The 'I' and 'now' does the heavy lifting in that sentence. I've had a few discussions with immigrants, and kids of immigrants who say this sort of shit. There's a lot to pick apart. And yet so much of it ends up circling back to selfsihness and self-grandure.

Nothing that there are a couple of weeks left for people to apply for a digital job that could be make or break for the NHS Director General for Technology, Digital and Data Department of Health and Social Care Here’s a screenshot as I’m pretty sure no one clicks past the ‘I’m not a robot’ page.

Managed to keep away from Liquid Glass this far. Then accepted an update at 5am in the morning after my kid woke me.

A bet: at some point, most of us will work with at least one person who was once a primary or secondary school teacher. Arguably more likely to happen in gov.

‘But in the 2020s, not validating ideas is amateurish.’

Bet ChatGPT could make me believe I understand this after a few exchanges. 😅

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Living this atm and agree with a lot of it. On the cause-remedy point, I think teams often lock themselves into an approach too early because some teams measure tangible progress in the form of screens. There are a number of reasons, e.g. delivery pressure, IxD preference, screen-focused UR, etc.

Wowzers! In the office today and I hadn't realised we were at the stage where folk take laptops into the loo while on calls (facing the urinals with cam off)! 🤯

Hands up if you have an AI team in your org who are knocking on everyone's door looking for problems that hopefully* AI can help 'solve'? ✋

Eeek! The Delivery Manager on LinkedIn kicking off a debate about innocent until proven guilty in the context of Andrew Windsor being stripped of his titles 🫣

Just discovered caramelised Jalapenos. 😋

Struggling to think about how to teach the scout kids about the 5th of Nov. My memory of being taught it in school is very different to reading about it as an adult! 😅

Ha, love this! Free iPad 👶!

Love! 😀

Anyone know the head of UR at HMPO? Think their post passport renewal survey is broken. I’m on email number 4.

Curry’s content for my steam iron order: “We’re working on your TECH order” 😁

Lovely to go into a workshop where one of the key stakeholders/leads sets the challenge of fixing a whole problem, not creating workarounds under the umbrella of MVP.

The Lizzy Line may need to be renamed the Hate-Crime Line. My wife, kids and I are part of the stat below after asking adults next to us to stop vaping. 'Last year, reported incidents of hate crimes on the Elizabeth line rose by nearly 50%, and by 28% across the wider London transport network'.

So the car battery is flat, and it turns out that it's quite hard to find someone willing/able to help. Might be getting old, but I feel like this was relatively easy to solve "back in the day".

UX friends - fancy a few sunny (*) days in Scotland next year? UX Scotland returns from 10-11 June. uxscotland.net Tickets now available. Call for Speakers opens soon. Join the mailing list to be the first to hear event announcements... uxscotland.net/mailing-list (*) Actual sunshine may vary.

This is the best reading on how we didn’t help. The entire clip!

Nationwide chair first major British lender boss to publicly engage with Reform UK. Building society defends Kevin Parry after he attends party’s breakfast event, sitting next to Richard Tice. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

While everyone's at SD in Gov, my excitement is limited to #TypoOfTheDay: BEAT. I meant to say BETA, but it may have been a Freudian slip. Credit for typo of the day to @markdalgarno.bsky.social

Hmmm, is there a word for protest art that is changed/evolves by its opposition? Bet German friends have a word!

👏to the lady with headphones dancing on platform 2 of Forest Hill station 😊

I have so many questions about Tesco's product roadmap. 😀 Or it's a stunt, like when Domino's claimed it was exploring pizza delivery by drones. Worth noting, at the same-ish time that they fought against accessibility in court.

I wonder how many products using AI will be this lazy/shit? The CO2 emissions! 😭 www.emojis.com/emoji/upside...

Very surprised London doesn’t have its own flag. This site is interesting. flag.london

The societal impact of corporate-gang rivalries.

💜 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love the photo for this apprenticeship role. Does sound interesting though.

How wonderful or awful is this idea for a service? A service that independently verifies civil servants and Ministers to help them have frank and anonymous discussions about the state of a policy, services, programme, initiative, etc.

@radiobeartime.com Is this you? www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Shocking, predictable, avoidable. "testimonies from doctors, relief workers and Gazans this week make it clear that a worst-case scenario is finally unfolding: Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating" washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Man! If we're all feeling like this now. I'm not looking forward to the next general election where Farage gains, or wins due to low turn-out for Labour or vote splitting.

Vulture Capitalism + some other factors.

Turns out store purchased ice has a use by date. My 6 yr old was quite poorly and we can only assume it was due to out of date ice recently bought from our corner store.

This is also wonderful! pudding.cool/2025/04/wine...

Honestly, can none of you read? You can still use BSky without going through adult verification. > For people who are under 18 or don’t want to go through this process, we’ll make adult-appropriate content inaccessible, and we’ll disable features like direct messaging. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Happy Friday Folks

My secret shame is that I love creating pages on Confluence that document knowledge, decision-making, and the logic that shaped decisions (time allowing, of course). 😅

Ha! My brain went straight to the fact that we didn't even have basics like mugs. You had to bring your own stuff in! A ping pong table would have been beyond lovely as a ping pong aficionado. Yay for the folk there though! I'm down the road if anyone wants a game 😉

The parallels between these 2 stories! www.politico.eu/article/euro...

GDS archivists! I'm looking for any blogs, papers, business cases etc. on the case for transitioning government web content to the single GOV.UK domain (from back in the day 2011-13?). Also, any insights into how Departments were engaged to persuade them this was in their interests.

Last night, a bus looked like it was going to blow up. Made this by accident by turning it from portrait to landscape.

Wow! I give the BBC a lot of space because I think they're imperfect but an important institution. Calling it a crash, though! Unless I'm missing something. And of course, Gaza! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...